There were unconfirmed rumors yesterday that US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was planning to travel to Taiwan this Sunday on the heels of a trip to Japan. The

According to China’s state media, President Xi Jinping told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call today that the international community should “truly” promote peace talks, where China

The southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson has fallen to Russian Federation troops, with Mariupol and Kharkiv under siege, and with historic Odessa, where Russia’ President Vladimir Putin has explicitly

The European Union has formally adopted the latest package of sanctions against Russia (and Belarus, more on Belarus below), under which seven Russian banks will be disconnected from the SWIFT

With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia now under way, European Union leaders will be asked by the European Commission to agree tonight on a new package of sanctions

Two weeks ago, we wrote that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would hold fast and ultimately prevail in his repeated warnings that the Debt Ceiling would have to be addressed

Happy (almost) Friday – well it seems always exciting! Debt ceiling standoff (a real one still), reconciliation and infrastructure fight, inflation and supply chain risks, Fed appointment challenges, energy crises,

Last Friday we wrote that a continuing resolution to fund the government with a debt ceiling extension attached would be shot down by Republicans, that Congress would then back a

In discussions over the past few weeks, we were asked more than once by US officials, clearly concerned with the Congressional stalemate and potential impact of a protracted deadlock on

In the interest of efficiency and time I thought we might share a few brief highlights of key market related points in (and not in) our reports while addressing some

Washington and Brussels will use the occasion of the first summit between US President Joseph Biden and European Union leaders next week to bury the hatchet on trade issues carried

Neither Beijing nor Washington expects any breakthrough from the talks scheduled for March 18-19 in Anchorage, Alaska between their respective foreign policy leadership teams. *** Rather, the two sides will

President Donald Trump’s demand last night that the just-negotiated Covid relief bill be rewritten to bump the allocation for Economic Impact Payment checks from $600 to $2,000 per eligible recipient

The Capitol Hill testimonies that began this morning by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and outgoing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will undoubtedly put the rare rift between the Fed and

The US Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump have been ratcheting up the pressure on China as their respective terms draw to a close: the House of Representatives

A senior source from China’s Central National Security Council gave a briefing on background in which he summarized the agency’s analysis of the US election results and offered some broad

A top-level official in China commented on background yesterday on the very tenuous but now likely attempts by Beijing to reset China-US economic and trade relations after the US presidential

Election day is finally behind us and the American people have spoken, and even while all the votes have yet to be tabulated, and with the near certainty of recounts

Last weekend, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi set the close of business today, Tuesday, as the deadline by which to strike a Phase IV fiscal stimulus deal with Treasury

The Phase IV Covid fiscal relief package looked all but dead and buried earlier this week when President Trump, barely out of the Walter Reed Medical Center, yanked Treasury Secretary